The Museums of the University of St Andrews

The Museums of the University of St Andrews

Astronomy,Botany,Chemistry,Geology,Mathematics,Medicine,Natural History,Natural Philosophy,Philosophy,Photography,Physics

The Museums of the University of St Andrews consist of two museums and a Collections Centre. The Wardlaw Museum houses most of the university’s collection, with displays focusing both on the history of the university itself, as well as the research and inventions it has produced. The Bell Pettigrew Museum is specialised on natural history with displays predominantly consisting of taxidermy, fossils, and skeletons. Across these museums, the university owns and displays an impressive 115, 000 artefacts and specimens . The museums include multiple artefacts of mathematical relevance, such as a set of Napier’s bones, geometry models used historically by students at the university, and, most famously, the Great Astrolabe created by Humphrey Cole and likely obtained for the university by the mathematician James Gregory.

For more information on the museums, see here.

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